Kata'ib Hezbollah

Kata'ib Hezbollah is an Iraqi Shia paramilitary group that was founded in October 2003 during the Iraq War. The group received training and funding from Iran's Quds Force, while Hezbollah also provided training and weapons to the group during its insurgency against the United States and its allies. After a crackdown on the group in the summer of 2008, many of its leaders fled to Iran. In 2013, the group began to send fighters to Syria to fight for the Syrian Arab Republic in the Syrian Civil War, and it also fought against the Islamic State during the Iraqi Civil War.